The History of the Social Sciences since 1945(English, Hardcover, Backhouse Roger E.)

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The History of the Social Sciences since 1945(English, Hardcover, Backhouse Roger E.) is written by Backhouse Roger E. and published by Cambridge University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0521889065 (ISBN 10) and 9780521889063 (ISBN 13).

This compact volume covers the main developments in the social sciences since the Second World War. Chapters on economics, human geography, political science, psychology, social anthropology, and sociology will interest anyone wanting short, accessible histories of those disciplines, all written by experts in the relevant field; they will also make it easy for readers to make comparisons between disciplines. A final chapter proposes a blueprint for a history of the social sciences as a whole. Whereas most of the existing literature considers the social sciences in isolation from one other, this volume shows that they have much in common; for example, they have responded to common problems using overlapping methods, and cross-disciplinary activities have been widespread.